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The conscription crisis(canada)
the conscription in canada was they supported the british empire. They send troops if they needed them.however the relentless human toll of the war and casualties at the front of europe were beginning to cause an reinforcement problems for canada.Recruitment was slowing and manpower system was disorganized. Same thing happened for ww2. the europe started to call more reinforcement. Which made canada having less manpower. the effect canada losing manpower and slowing down the recruitment system. -
Rape of Nanking
1937-January 1938. Japanese terrorized the people of Nanjing they killed 100,000 troops and unarmed Chinese civilians were killed. They killed about 300,000 people. Many killings took place outside the city limits, and that deaths in battle and deaths by execution Women were gang-raped in front of their families, streets were filled with rotting corpses, children were casually murdered. 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. -
British commonwealth air training plan
canada,british,new zealand, australia created the bcatp. They all signed an agreement to create Bcatp plan. Located in canada, The plan was to train an air force for ww2. Like air gunners and navigators.the british instructors trained allied pilots other personnel in canada. the bcatp happen because the war loomed into europe in the 1930s and Canada had space in there air training place. It was easy to escort men from britain. So they trained bcatp. The impact was over 131,553 people graduated. -
The SS St. Louis
the jewish refugees about 907 of them aboard the SS St. Louis. The were looking for a new place to settle down because of hitler discriminating against jews. So they went to canada to see if they can come to settle down there. But canada refused to take them because of them not having enough jobs in canada for their own people living their. They were not allowed to dock canada or USA.The impact of this is that no one wanted the jewish refugees. -
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Battle of the Atlantic
was caused because the allies got their supplies in the war.Germany wanted to cut their supplies off so the allies wouldn’t have any. wanted to destroy the merchant ships. The battle was right in front of Canada which caused the Royal Canadian Navy and Air force a role for the Allie efforts.The Allies lost many merchant ships and supplies. More than 1,600 Merchant personnel from Canada and Newfoundland were killed. after a long time german surrender because of canada being so close to Atlantic. -
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Fall of France
German forces defeated Allied forces and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until.Italy entered the war and attempted an invasion of France.After months of speculation, Germany brought war to western Europe, with the primary goal of conquering France. German bombers hit air bases in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands, destroying bunch of Allied planes on the ground and crippling Allied air defenses. -
Evacuation of dunkirk
the british and allied soldiers were surrounded at dunkirk while trying to defend it.this evacuation happened because after the phoney war france got surround so everyone had to evacuate.They decided to escape across the english channel to britain. Every britain boat was used to get allies across. Then dunkirk was bombed by luftwaffe by an germany air force, but 340,00 allied soldiers were evacuated. The best evacuation of all time. The impact was that a lot of lives were saved. -
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Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britain was the first battle of the Second World War fought mainly in the air. After nearly four months of anxious combat, the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Fighter Command stopped the German air force's attempt, in advance of a planned invasion, to dominate the skies over southern and eastern England. Hundreds of Canadian air and ground crew participated in the battle, most as members of the RAF. -
Operation barbarossa
Hitler wanted the soviet union resources and land so he invaded them.The soviet union was unprepared their were almost pushed back to Moscow.But then the germans were unprepared for the cold winters. So they were low on supplies.The invasion on the soviet union eventually leads to defeat. When the soviet union pushed them back to germany.hitler wanted the land and resources. The impact of this war is that the germans didn't get what they want. The germans would of had a turning point on the war. -
Pearl Harbour
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, they managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
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Battle of Hong Kong
Japan attacked Hong Kong. The Japanese had more air support than Hong Kong. Hong Kong did not have enough men to fully man line defenses. Japanese overran the Shing Mun. Japanese destroyed harbor and military facilities as people retreated. The Japanese requested twice for the british troop to surrender but they didn't. eventually on black Christmas Hong Kong surrender, costed the british 9,500 captured as well 2,113 killed/wounded in battle. Japanese kept hong kong for the rest of the war. -
Japanese canadians internment
canadian government took all that the japanese had.they detained the vast majority of japanese peoples decent living in british columbia. They were confined for the rest of the ww2.this time the japanese homes were sold and everything else they owned by the government in order to pay their detention. canada had been very racist to japanese. that point of ww2 they just sold all the stuff the japanese had for money. The impact of this is that the japanese had no homes in canada. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
was a successful defence of the city stalingrad now known as Volgograd against germany. Germany wanted to take over stalingrad because it would help them launch more attacks into Caucasus. Germany bombed the cities and turned them into rubble.Hitler wanted his troops to hold their ground but Germany were surrounded in the cold, low on ammunition . Germany had no chance so they surrendered, about 150,000 german troops had died. The soviet win for Stalingrad was a great humiliation for hitler. -
Manhattan project
the US government had been funding a project to make an atomic bomb. president truman learned that the atomic bomb test in new mexico was successful. To make this bomb it took a cost of $2 billion and 120,000 jobs to make the bomb. they named it the a-bomb. they made this because they heard the german nazis were working on nuclear weapons. So before the nazis made something powerful the US thought of making one first.The effect of this is that the US could drop this on anybody they want. -
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Liberation of the Netherlands
in the final months of ww2 canadian forces were given the important but deadly task of liberating the netherlands from nazis occupation. From september 1944 to april 1945 the first canadian army fought german forces on the scheldt estuary. Opening the port for antwerp for allied use. Then cleared the north and west netherlands of germans, allowing their food to million of desperate people. The impact of this war is that canda had a long bond with netherland -
D-Day
D-day: 1944- august 1944, 156,000 american, british, canadian forces landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of france Normandy region. Largest military attack in history, needed a lot of planning. The united states and allied troops invaded normandy, this was the largest air, sea, land invasion in history, this invasion is how they began to end world war 2 -
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Yalta conference
An major conference of three chiefs allied leaders president Franklin D.Roosevelt of united states, prime minister Winston Churchill of great britain, and premier Joseph stalin of soviet union. Which met in Yalta in crimea to plan the final defeat of the nazis. three of them agreed to split germany into four zones.to make germany unconditional surrender and to set up in the conquered nations of four zones. The impact of this is germany were divided into four zones watched by the cheifs. -
Death of Hitler
died in berlin, germany. Hitler decided that for the last great siege of the war. He would stay in his bunker it was fifty feet under the chancellery. Then warned by officers that the russians were only a day or so from taking over the chancellery. The officer suggested that he escape to Berchtesgaden, where hitler owned a house. instead he chose suicide. hitler didn't want them to capture him. So he chose to kill himself. The impact to this is that the germans surrendered. -
Atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki
an american b-29 bomber dropped the world first deployed atomic bomb over the japanese city of hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killing over 100,000 people and thousands would die of radiation exposure. a second b-29 dropped another a-bomb. Killing an estimated 70,000 people. Then emperor hirohito said his surrender in ww2. the americans were concerned with the nuclear weapons research that they were doing in germany. The impact of this is a lot of deaths -
VE day
August 7 May 1945, know as “Victory in Europe” celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II, germany surrendered to their Soviet antagonists in Europe. The surrender was found out in a crease fire. Germany surrendered because the Germans attempted a mass exodus to the West when the fighting in Czechoslovakia ended but Russia stopped them and held them captive. Russia had about 2 million German troops prisoned
